Nephi Craig

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Fresh Air · Best Of: Broadway legend André De Shields / Apache Chef Nephi Craig · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And it's added to a lot of different things from like sprinkled on roasted meats or especially cooked in stews.

It's really, really good like that.

We refer to it as acorn stew.

So it's usually a lot of bones, whether it's beef or elk or deer, chunks of meat, and it's simmered for a long time until it's really soft.

And then the acorn flour is sprinkled in towards the end, and sometimes squash is added, and a lot of times they'll be like flour dumplings or corn dumplings added in.

It's real simple, real homey, but really distinct Apache flavors.

It's a traditional Apache bread.

It's called racquet bread because it's cooked on a tool that looks like a tennis racket.

So it has this like long metal handle and there's this wire circle at the end of it.

And there's like steel grates or wire strands woven to make it look like a long tennis racket.

And that is placed directly on top of hot coals.

And Apache ladies usually just stretch out the dough and put it right on the coals and it puffs up really quick.

So it's really delicious.

Well, it's not an indigenous food.

It has this lasting legacy with us.

And foods that were distributed required a ration card.

And you might get flour, some beef, some dried beef, maybe some rice and potatoes, maybe some coffee and sugar.

Ration lists varied from place to place, but they were pretty much always going to contain flour and lard.

And so fry bread emerges, some say in the Southwest, and there's big debates about where and who did it first.

But if you look across all of Native America, from Florida to New York to the Great Plains to the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest and the American Southwest, every tribe has fry bread as a result of military food rations.

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